# Hans Stephani

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{{Short description|German physicist (1935–2003)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Hans Stephani
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| birth_date        = {{birth date|1935|01|20}}
| birth_place       = Brumby, Germany
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2003|09|14|1935|01|20}}
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| citizenship       = German
| fields            = Theoretical physics
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| alma_mater        = 
| thesis_title      = The structure of fields and equations of motion of charged gravitating point masses in the first and second (post-Newtonian) approximation (of Einstein’s theory)
| thesis_year       = 1963
| doctoral_advisor  = [Ernst Schmutzer](/source/Ernst_Schmutzer)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=67567 | title=Hans Stephani |work=The Mathematics Genealogy Project}}</ref>
| doctoral_students = 
| known_for         = [Exact solutions in general relativity](/source/Exact_solutions_in_general_relativity)
}}
'''Hans Stephani''' (January 20, 1935 — September 14, 2003) was a German physicist who mainly worked on the [general theory of relativity](/source/General_relativity).<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1023/B:GERG.0000017042.76727.06| title=Memorial: Hans Stephani| journal=General Relativity and Gravitation| volume=36| issue=4| pages=899–901| date=April 2004| last1=MacCallum| first1=M.| bibcode=2004GReGr..36..899M| s2cid=121677646}}</ref>

==Biography==
Stephani obtained his master's degree at [Jena](/source/Jena) in 1958 under the supervision of Gerhard Heber. He finished his PhD under [Ernst Schmutzer](/source/Ernst_Schmutzer) at [University of Jena](/source/University_of_Jena) and joined as a lecturer there. His wife Irmtraud Stephani is a mathematician at the same university. He retired in 2000.

==Books==
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* {{cite book|author=Hans Stephani, Dietrich Kramer, Malcolm MacCallum, Cornelius Hoenselaers, Eduard Herlt|title=Exact Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
* {{cite book|author=Hans Stephani, Malcolm MacCallum|title=Differential Equations: Their Solution Using Symmetries|url=https://archive.org/details/differentialequa0000step|url-access=registration|year=1990|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
* {{cite book|author=Hans Stephani|title=Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
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